Chapter 321 (1/2)
All of us have been promoted to a small level. Although there are factors that have been accumulated for a long time, this difficulty is not ordinary. This favor is great.
Chen Lu'an and Yun Yiqi were surprised to find master Shu in person to express their thanks. The master only said that this was the blessing brought by the purple gold bowl.
Oral thanks are not enough. Such kindness can only be reported in the future.
Master Shu gave such a big gift. Chen Lu'an and Yun Yiqi, as the elders of the school, can't be stingy. It's just that everyone needs to steadily improve their cultivation. They agreed to leave for Guangji temple in three days, so they separately instructed their disciples to practice during this period.
Chen Lu'an focused on hualanting. He called hualanting and Feng Qingjun together to give instructions alone.
Yun Yiqi and Feng Huolun, as hualanting's teaching masters, were afraid of the dangers he faced in the battle with Huang Yi. After discussion, they decided to use Yun Yiqi's materials and Feng Huolun's strength to create a self-defense weapon for hualanting.
Three days passed in a flash. The night before departure, the disciples of Vientiane sect gathered together according to the instructions of Chen Lu'an, a double practitioner of Buddhism and Taoism, and continued to listen to master Shu's teaching of Buddhism.
Art does not weigh on one's body, and listening to it is wise. There are not many opportunities to ask the living Buddha for advice.
Master Shu answered some doubts about learning Buddhism tonight. Instead of talking about his own experience, he used the content of master dezongling, an eminent monk in the divine domain Buddhism, when he taught all sentient beings.
Master zongling was once a general and profound in Buddhism. Later, he escaped. When he was young, he had a famous saying:
Get on the horse and kill the enemy! Dismount and learn Buddhism!
Master zongling believes that learning Buddhism is a very logical thing.
The master said that people have a variety of motives to worship Buddha. Some people heard that believing in Buddha can cure diseases, others heard that Buddha is very powerful and can bless their promotion and wealth. Some felt the peace and joy they haven't seen for a long time in the temple, some said that they had a great feeling after reading a Buddhist language of soul chicken soup, and others just because they wanted to be quiet.
But when people's needs are not met in a short time, or encounter other spiritual substitutes, many people give up.
The mage believes that the correct motivation is based on the correct logic and world outlook, values and outlook on life.
If we compare the three views of corrupt officials in the secular world with the three views of Buddhism, we will find that they are very rational, and the essence of the logical process is to ”get happiness from suffering”.
The only difference is that they are based on different world views - Buddhism believes that there is reincarnation, while secular people believe that there is no reincarnation.
Everyone may be a ”corrupt official”, because people's desires are unlimited.
An ordinary person who hates corrupt officials will probably become corrupt officials if he sits in the same high position and faces the same temptation one day.
Interestingly, corruption is often attributed by offenders to external systems. They think they have no problem.
If we ”seek inward”, the root is not in the system, but in our own world outlook.
On the surface, some people don't believe in Buddhism or have no faith because they are afraid that freedom is limited. If they go deep into it, they don't believe in cause and effect. They feel that there will be no ”bad reward” for acting willfully, and there will be no ”good reward” for abiding by precepts and doing good.
The master joked that everyone is a wise man after being knocked unconscious and amnesia, because as soon as they wake up, they will ask three major propositions of life: who am I? Where am I? Why am I here?.
If you are a doctor, the answer to three questions: you are a fetus; You are in the womb; Because contraception failed.
The mage's answer is: you are a mortal; You are reincarnation; Because of karma.
If you don't believe in reincarnation and are determined to leave, copying scriptures is just practicing calligraphy, meditation is just quiet, and being vegetarian is just losing weight.
If the cause and effect of reincarnation does not exist, master zongling said he was the first to quit Buddhism and resolutely chose to ”be an asshole and love life”.
The master said that Buddhism is the most complicated religion. The classics are vast, and the theory is unfathomable. At first contact, there is a feeling of overwhelming and nowhere to start. You can't finish reading the Buddhist scriptures, you can't understand them, you don't know how to practice them, and no one can guide them, and you don't know right or wrong.
What's more, Buddhist theory is very speculative. Basically, each viewpoint will provide more than two perspectives. There may be one, two, three, four, five, and they are not contradictory to each other.
It's not hard to understand. For example, you have a dream of eating an apple. In your dream, you think the apple is real. When you wake up, you think the apple doesn't exist at all, so it's right that the apple is ”there”. It's ok if it's not ”empty”. It depends on which angle.
For another example, what is the fundamental force driving the world? Buddhism believes that it is a thing called ”karma”. Karma follows the law of cause and effect.
In short, good is rewarded for good, and evil is rewarded for evil.
When you encounter any strange phenomenon, a ”karma” will shut your mouth with a bang.
Karma is a natural law. Different from some religions, the Buddha is not the creator and does not think he is ”omnipotent”. Therefore, the suffering of the world cannot depend on the Buddha.
Buddhism believes that there are countless worlds in the universe, but the world of ordinary people can be divided into ”six Tao”. When people die, they will incarnate into one of them according to karma. As long as they have not been released to a certain extent, they will wander back and forth in the ”six ways”, that is, the so-called ”reincarnation”.
Master zongling found that Buddhism believes that most ordinary people cannot remember their previous lives due to the ”mystery of separating Yin”, but there are still individuals who can remember their previous lives due to special karma. It's like most people can't remember things before the age of three, but there are still individuals who can remember.
He studied a large number of cases and concluded that the probability of reincarnation is much greater than that of non existence. In other words, part of the Buddhist ”samsara theory” has a great chance to be verified, while the other part cannot be falsified.
One of the most core theories of Buddhism is ”originating emptiness”.
Simply put, there is nothing in the world that can exist independently without being attached to other conditions, and there is nothing permanent. Everything is born by karma and combination. Therefore, the nature of all things is empty. From material to spirit, from space to time.
The secular view holds that material is real, and time and space are real. Matter exists independently and has nothing to do with human cognition.
Buddhism has a completely different position from these two secular views.